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Podcast: Bret Hammond
Episode: This Is Us: A Community of Transformation; Revelation 21:1-5
Description: Tucked in the middle of the movie, The Passion of the Christ is a scene that I find my mind going back to again and again. Jesus has been beaten bloody and carries his cross through the streets of Jerusalem. The weight of the wood, the exhaustion of the beating, and the blood in his eyes from the crown of thorns suddenly become too much for him. He collapses to the ground, the cross pinning him there.
His mother watches on, and like any mother who sees her child fall, she runs to comfort him, saying, āIām here.ā Jesus turns...